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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is considering to invalidate many (if not most) software patents and significantly restrict the issuance of new process patents. No doubt, intellectual property does deserve decent protection, and I think that this move by the USPTO will in fact result in better protection of property: copyright law provides ample protection against IPR theft while not getting in the way of real innovations. To draw a technical comparison, process patent law protects the Read More...
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During TechEd 2008, I participated in a Panel discussion on Web Services Interoperability. Microsoft just put up the tape on their TechNet Library site . They also have a WMV video feed , and a MP3 audio-only feed . Read More...
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Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year's TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse panel, with speakers from Microsoft, WSO2, Tibco, and Sun. While there was general agreement on the usefulness of the more basic WS-* specifications like WS-Security, opinions differed on where the future lies and how it can be achieved. In my opinion, the Read More...
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It took quite a while, but by now it is out. Please welcome the Windows CardSpace Information Card extensions for OpenSSO: https://opensso.dev.java.net/source/browse/opensso/extensions/authnicip/ When I started working on this last spring, I was not even hoping to see this released in open source and part of the OpenSSO extensions family in less than a year. It took the goodwill and talent of quite a few people to get this off the ground, but with the public release of this code and the upcoming Read More...
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This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here ) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft's BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). "Well", you might ask, "what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn't this what this whole web services thingy was supposed to achieve? Interoperability?!" Yes, indeed. However, this is the first time ever (to my knowledge) that Microsoft is releasing JEE code, built with Metro within NetBeans, as part of an SDK . Getting there took quite Read More...
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This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here ) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft's BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). "Well", you might ask, "what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn't this what this whole web services thingy was supposed to achieve? Interoperability?!" Yes, indeed. However, this is the first time ever (to my knowledge) that Microsoft is releasing JEE code, built with Metro within NetBeans, as part of an SDK . Getting there took quite Read More...
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Eve was kind enough to link to my earlier article on our CardSpace Deep Dive. In that post she mentions our whiteboard notes, that I took at picture of, after all: Cards based on X.509 authentication are almost working ... there is still a small issue with identifying the right certs based on the thumbprint. Overall, a fairly good result, I'd say ;-) tag: Interoperability , Identity , CardSpace Read More...
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Not about SCUBA this time: we are right now visting in Redmond so we can test our implementation of a Windows CardSpace compatible IdP against Microsoft's implementation. Eventually, we will (hopefully) make this code available to the OpenSSO community through an OpenSSO Extension. At the core of the integration, we (Paul, Jiandong ,Mrudul, and I) have integrated the Metro/WSIT WS-Trust STS into OpenFM and created a simple cardfactory to produce CRD files (a big thank you to Chuck from here for letting Read More...
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Here is a small update on available .NET FastInfoset (X.891) libraries: Noemax FastInfoset.NET - I have been talking to them from very early on. Liquid XML Compression - a relatively new (at least to me) implementation that supports .NET 2.0 and the Compact Framework. There is a trial available from both vendors. If there is still interest in the community, I would be happy to revisit my FIFI code and release it publicly. Please send me a message if this was important to you. tag: FastInfoset , .NE Read More...
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Through Nico Williams a real interoperability story: Alan Wright reports that the Solaris team recently completed the Solaris kernel CIFS service. That's right: CIFS (i.e. Windows networking) is now on par with NFS and other kernel-level system services. To be able to achieve this goal, the Solaris folks had to create some really innovative pieces of technology: To allow Windows style SIDs in the process credentials, they are now allowing negative and ephemeral UIDs and GIDs. ZFS now supports all Read More...
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Paul Trevithick just announced that Higgins will start developing a SAML 2.0 compliant card selector, that will - in addition to Windows CardSpace compatible i-cards - support SAML 2.0 compatible "s-cards" [1] . This will be quite interesting to follow, in particular if Higgins really supports the SAML 2.0 protocol (not only the token format). In that case it would really step up to be part of the identity meta system (actually: the Aleph 0 Identity System ). PS: Welcome in the blogosphere, Paul! Read More...
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